TO TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS MARCH 1, 1943 to MAY 7, 1943 BEFORE THE u.s. EMERGENCY BOARD Appointed from the National Railway Labor Panel To investigate the facts as to the Dispute between Certain Common Carriers RESPECTING WAGE INCREASE AND UNION SHOP Compiled by B.I.S.E. Rys. 203 This Index is divided into four sections, as follows: 1. General (white pages) 2. Short Lines (green pages) 3. Independently Represented Carriers, and Refrigerator Car Companies (orange pages) 4. Railway Express Agency (blue pages) The "General" section includes all references except those pertaining exclusively to the Short Lines, Car Companies, Express Agency, or any of the independently represented carriers. Most of the evidence introduced and arguments made are of general applicability to the railroad industry as a whole, having been introduced either by the organizations on behalf of approximately 1,000,000 "non-operating" employes (those not employed in engine or train service) whom they represented, or by the three territorial Carriers' Conference Committees (Eastern, Southeastern, and Western) on behalf of approximately 250 carriers (most of the Class I railroads and their subsidiaries) which they represented. Such "general" evidence on behalf of the carriers was adopted by the Short Lines, independently represented carriers, car companies, and (so far as the stabilization program is concerned) by the Express Agency. The "Short Lines" section includes references to evidence introduced on behalf of the individual roads represented by the American Short Line Railroad Association. The "Independently Represented Carriers and Refrigerator Car Companies" section includes references to evidence introduced by or concerning all carrier parties appearing which were not represented by one of the territorial Conference Committees or by the Short Line Association. Since most of the evidence introduced on behalf of the employes in the service of the Short Lines, of the independently represented carriers, and of the refrigerator car companies, was part of the employes' general evidence in relation to Class I carriers, such evidence is indexed in the first section, and references to that pertaining specifically only to the Short Lines, independently represented carriers and refrigerator car companies are in the second and third sections. The "Express Agency" section includes references to evidence and arguments involving employes of the Railway Express Agency, presented by the clerks' organization which represented most of the Express Agency employes involved in the dispute (no separate presentation was made by the machinists or by the blacksmiths), and by the Express Agency itself. The first section contains complete cross references to the other sections. It includes also references to evidence and arguments of general interest or applicability presented by any of the parties (i.e. including Short Lines, car companies, Express Agency, etc.). The requests of the employes were for a wage increase and for a union shop. Inasmuch as the union shop request, as well as the wage request, applied to all types of carriers parties to the dispute, no separate section of the Index is devoted to the union shop proposal, and evidence and arguments concerning it are indexed in the various sections. Entries are by subjects and names, which are arranged alphabetically in each of the four sections. Whenever possible, closely-related subjects have been grouped under a single subject listing. Thus, material pertaining to average earnings, history of railroad wages, wage policies, etc., is included with wage rates under the listing WAGES. Similarly the number, classifications, regularity, conditions (other than wages and hours), etc., of employment, and duties of employes, are entered under EMPLOYES AND EMPLOYMENT; hours of service and basis for punitive payments are entered under BASIC DAY (OR WEEK), OVERTIME, SUNDAY AND HOLIDAY, ETC. PROVISIONS, AND AVERAGE HOURS WORKED; labor organizations Transport. are all entered under LABOR ORGANIZATIONS; railroad traffic, revenues, expenses, and income are grouped under OPERATING RESULTS: etc. Listings are, of course, thoroughly cross-indexed. Arrangement of material shown under a single subject (or name) is not alphabetical but by whatever sebest suits the material. Such sequence is chronological in some instances, causation or development (for quence example, traffic-revenues-expenses-income) in some, and the presence of some "common denominator" in others. When the entries under a single subject (or name) are numerous, an outline is provided indicating the groupings used and their relation to each other. The hearings consumed 45 hearing days, extending from March 1, 1943 until May 7, with recess from April 19 to April 27. A separate volume of the transcript was set up for each such day. The transcript consists of 6338 numbered pages. The Table of Contents on the immediately following pages (and similar tables introducing each of the colored-page sections, abridged by the exclusion of non-pertinent material) indicates for each hearing day (and corresponding volume) what section of the case was under consideration and what witnesses testified or what counsel argued on any given day. |